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  • November 1, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    The Counsel You Keep

    Click Here For The ChartWhen William Lytton arrived at scandal-ridden Tyco International Ltd.,

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  • May 30, 2012 | Daily Business Review

    Parameters expanded for claim against company in bankruptcy

    A federal appeals court has extended the parameters of its test used to determine when there is a valid claim against a company

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  • January 24, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Panel Suggest Ways to Execute Reforms to Commercial Division

    The Commercial and Federal Li on Section of the New York State Bar Association met yesterday at the Hilton in midtown Manhattan for a pair of panels exploring the future of commercial li

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  • Rodriguez v. Robbins

    Publication Date: 2013-04-16
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    Date Filed: 2013-04-16
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Terry J. Hatter, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Sam E. Haddon, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore W. Atkinson (argued), Stuart F. Delery, August Flentje, David J. Kline, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellants.
    for defendant: Ahilan T. Arulanantham (argued), Michael Kaufman, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Judy Rabinovitz and Michael Tan, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, New York; Jayashri Srikantiah, Stanford Law School Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Stanford, California; Sean Commons and Cody Jacobs, Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Appellees. Angel L. Tang, Marco J. Martemucci, and Elizabeth S. St. John, Arnold & Porter LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae professors and researchers of sociology, criminology, anthropology, and law. Sarah H. Paoletti, Elizabeth Freed, and Suniti Mehta, University of Pennsylvania Law School Transnational Legal Clinic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Amici Curiae international law professors and human rights clinics and clinicians.
    Case Number: No. 12-56734

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 3703ALEJANDRO RODRIGUEZ; ABDIRIZAK A DEN FARAH; JOSE FARIAS CORNEJO; USSUF BDIKADIR; ABEL EREZ UELAS, for themselves and on behalf

  • October 24, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    McDermott Asks Supreme Court to Hear Coach's Prayer Case

    As Vivia Chen wrote last year in The American Lawyer, "pro bono is not just the province of liberals." For proof, consider the case of

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  • June 29, 2011 | Daily Report Online

    Ex-State Farm stalwart Harper joins plaintiffs' bar

    After 32 years as an outside defense lawyer for State Farm, Thomas D. Harper has officially gone to the other side. He became a member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association on June

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  • September 7, 2007 | The Associated Press

    Head of DOJ's Civil Division Resigns

    Assistant Attorney General Peter D. Keisler, who oversaw the Bush administration's lengthy legal fight over the rights of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, announced his resignation Thursday as head of

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  • May 2, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Should Lying About Your Age Online Be a Federal Crime?

    The calls for amending the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) have grown louder. Internet activists alarmed by the January suicide of Aaron Swartz, who was facing a prison term for downloadi

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  • December 16, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Bankruptcy Rates Top $1,000 Mark in 2008-09

    A review of bankruptcy rates in Delaware and the Southern District of New York shows that a handful of U.S.-based partners at

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  • January 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Past the Tipping Point

    In May, we published a small chart showing the five most "leveraged" firms in The Am Law 100, based on the ratio of all lawyers to equity partners. At the time, the list seemed

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